clinton is now a member of the obama cabinet. he will rebut the charge that president obama has gutted welfare reform and the president who declared big government over will make the case for the economic stewardship of an incumbent would has more governed from the left, something bill clinton has done in recent campaign ads. >> this is a clear choice: the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper income people and go back to deregulation. that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from the ground up investing in innovation, education, and job training and only works if there is a strong middle class. that happened when i was president. >> this will be bill clinton's 7th address to the democratic national convention in 25 years and, also, a historic first, follow me on twitter and i will tweet it out. >>shepard: jimmy will tweet it out, all right, james, we will follow you. with us is former speech writer to president clinton who helped draft president clinton's state of the union